Fundamentally if a community runs on the core principles of rewards, eventually it shifts to inorganic content, derived and tooled to specifically optimise maximum revenue. This is a textbook case seen and documented time and time again, the most basic examples are people offering adsense optimised content on various review websites. Reviews used to be honest, transparent and a good source of truth, nowadays it is all about who pays the most for one and then easily gets a favourably worded review with no personality of its own.
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